{"product_id":"agenda-relevance-dov-m-gabbay-9780444513854","title":"Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics: Volume 1","description":"Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of\u003cbr\u003ethe logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic\u003cbr\u003eof Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is\u003cbr\u003eidentified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, \u003cbr\u003eincluding resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike\u003cbr\u003ewhat is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner\u003cbr\u003elacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to\u003cbr\u003ecomputational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a\u003cbr\u003ecognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable\u003cbr\u003eefficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various\u003cbr\u003escarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive\u003cbr\u003etraits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the\u003cbr\u003epractical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant\u003cbr\u003einformation and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are\u003cbr\u003eimpediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense, \u003cbr\u003erelevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be\u003cbr\u003esaid to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or\u003cbr\u003ecloses some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a\u003cbr\u003econceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and\u003cbr\u003epragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to\u003cbr\u003eintegrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further\u003cbr\u003eattraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal\u003cbr\u003econceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression\u003cbr\u003ein formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and\u003cbr\u003elabel led deductive systems.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief\u003cbr\u003edynamics, computer science, AI, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, \u003cbr\u003eargumentation theory, and legal reasoning and forensic science, and will repay\u003cbr\u003estudy by graduate students and senior undergraduates in these same fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKey features: \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- relevance \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- action and agendas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- practical reasoning \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- belief dynamics \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- non-classical logics \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- labelled deductive systems \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dov M. Gabbay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 044451385X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780444513854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North-Holland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.45w x 1.07d","brand":"Dov M. Gabbay","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153027051775,"sku":"9780444513854","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a58bac6-c2c6-4d45-88b0-f827ccc983ef.jpg?v=1770780782","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/agenda-relevance-dov-m-gabbay-9780444513854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}